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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 28, 1944
Rogers Resigns As No Commercial
Ass’t City Secretary Failure in 1944
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j somewhat easier to find work.
Texas residents are given earlier
consideration than others.
Student employees are paid in
t cash, and are expected to pay their
a accounts in the same way. Most
s student labor is paid at a standard
l rate, which enables the individual
^ to earn from $12 to $25 per month
i for the 40 to 60 hours working
time that he can ordinarily spare
j from study.
1 Types of jobs available are quite
j varied. Every effort is made to
1 place the student on a job in which
< he can earn both money and ex-
< perience in his chosen work; or on
a job at which he can work with
a minimum of interference with
his class schedules. Some of the
available jobs include typing,
drafting, campus maintenance, live
stock work, janitors, waiters, dairy
and creamery work, movie projec
tors, mail carriers, hospital attend
ants, laboratory assistants, intra
mural sports officiating, blueprint
ing, printing shop, horticultural
gardens, power plant, museum, etc.
For those students *who need
only a little financial assistance
or who have articles or services
of value to the cadet corps, the
Placement Office supervises a sys
tem of student concessions, where T
by the individual is given the au
thority to sell or solicit in the
dormitories. Such articles as can
dy, stationery, shower shoes, dairy
products, etc., are handled in this
way.
The Placement Office also main
tains a service that, because of
the war, hasn’t seen much service.
This service helped graduating
seniors .get jobs after they com
pleted their schooling. It still
maintains contact with almost 4000
business firms and is keeping a
record of them to be used after
the war when so many Aggies will
return to complete their courses.
It also tries to place Aggies that
are out of school in industry.
It operates two loan funds, the
Davis “Loan me a Buck” fund, and
the -Ernestine Gaber Loan Fund.
The number of men now em
ployed by the Placement Office is
314. The largest group of them
work in the mess hall, which em
ploys 158 of them. The B. & C. U.
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hires 19 men whose job consists
mainly of janitorial service.
The Student Activities Office
employs 17, the Extension Service
has 16 men, while the Electrical
Engineering Department has eight
in its employ. Altogether there are
35 divisions on the campus that
employ men.
The Commandant’s Office em
ploys one man, a bugler, the most
hated man on the campus.
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efit of the men who are over eigh
teen and who are waiting for their
induction call.
For the seventeen-year-old boys
who intend to join the navy, he
pointed out that the most urgent
need for men was for Radio Tech
nicians and Hospital Corpsmen.
For a while there was a limit to
the number of men who could be
accepted before their eighteenth
birthday, but now the restrictions
have been removed and men are
needed. They will be sent to be
trained as soon as they are sworn
in.
The Radio Technician course can
be taken by applying at any re
cruiting office to take an exam
ination. The test consists of eighty
questions, of which twenty are on
general science, twenty on general
mathematics, fifteen on elemen
tary radio, fifteen on elementary
electricity, and ten on shop prac
tice. A grade of sixty-five is pass
ing on the exam. This means that
at least fifty-two questions, dis
tributed throughout the quiz, must
be answered correctly. According
to Mr. Henderson, a man who is
qualified to enter an accredited en
gineering school should be able to
pass the quiz.
The training consists of -eight
weeks of preliminary instruction.
Texas boys are usually sent to
Chicago for this training. Then
the student is sent to college for
five months, and finishes with a
rating of Third Class Petty Offi
cer, usually. Then, after three
months more training at an ad
vanced base, such as San Diego,
he is given a rating of Radio Tech
nician Second Class, and recom
mended for First Class as soon as
he shows that he can take such
responsibility at sea. Texas boys
have so far had a fairly good op
portunity to choose their schools,
Henderson stated. Applicants for
the course must be seventeen.
Sometimes men who take this
course are transferred to the Navy
Air Corps as Aircraft Radio Tech-
Chem Engineering
Society To Hear
Featured Speaker
Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m.
in Hensel Park, the American In
stitute of Chemical Engineers had
a barbecue picnic. After eating,
the members had a spirited game
of baseball. About 20 were pres
ent.
At the next meeting, the date
of which is to be announced in a
later issue of the Batt, the fea
tured speaker will be from the
calcium arsenate plant in Bryan.
An inspection of this plant is be
ing planned for the members of
the society in the near future.
“All Chemical Engineering stu
dents, whether a member of the
chapter or not, are urged to at
tend the next meeting” said E. B.
Claunch, president.
Large Crowds Swim
At Natatorium
Since the P. L. Downs Natato
rium has been opened to the resi
dents of College Station, large
crowds have been swimming each
afternoon in an effort to beat the
heat.
The pool is open to the public
each afternoon except Sunday
from 6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Ag
gies who wish to swim during
these hours must have a date in
order to be admitted to the pool.
nicians. This assignment usually
means carrier duty.
The physican for any seventeen-
year-old is the same as that for
selective service induction, except
that the eye-test must be at least
six-twenty in each eye, and ten-
twenty with both eyes.
He said that the V-12 and V-5
sections of the navy have been
closed to civilians due to the fact
that the navy’s quota is nearly
filled.
Entering any program of the
navy now means enlisting for the
duration and the period $f emer
gency which will exist at the close
of the war.
Hospital Corpsmen are now
needed very badly by the navy,
Henderson said. He did not go very
deeply into the training of these
men, as there was not much in
terest expressed by the men who
attended the meeting. He did say,
however, that their first training
would be in a navy hospital, and
afterward they would probably be
sent out on hospital ships.
Henderson stated that there is
no obligation to the navy if a man
takes the examination for one or
more jobs until he is sworn in. He
may finish the enlistment com
pletely except for that and still
change his mind. Seventeen-year-
olds must have their parents’ con
sent.
Pluto, the most distant planet
of our solar system can be de
tected only through photographic
plates exposed through telescopes.
Stars visible to the naked eye,
all at one time, number around 2,-
000.
Stars are great suns whose vol
umes average a million times
greater than the volume of the
earth.
Claude W. Rogers, assistant sec
retary for the city of College
Station and tax assessor-collector
for the past year, has accepted a
position with the Clayton-Anderson
Accounting firm in Houston, it was
announced by Lloyd D. Smith, city
manager of College Station. He will
be succeeded by Dewey Hoke, who
has been with the Physical Educa
tion Department of A. & M. for the
last seven years. Hoke will take
over in this business end of the
city with a number of years bank
ing and business experience.
In announcing Roger’s resigna
tion, Smith stated that his record
was of an excellent character and
he will be missed in the city of
fices. After he came to College
Station and became connected with
the city, he began working toward
a Master’s degree at A. & M.,
which he earned only a short time
ago.
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tion of swing. Comparatively new
to this section of the country, his
music has preceded his personal
appearances by means of radio and
records. He has been acclaimed
the “Crown Prince of Swing” by
all who have heard him. He fea
tures a type of music he calls
“symphonic swing” and also the
plain “boogie woogie.” He has been
rated among such favorite bands
as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington,
Jimmy Lunceford, and Lionel
Hampton.
Fields can play any instrument
in the band, including a hot trum
pet or a smooth trombone.
Tickets will go on sale Wednes
day, August 2, at $1.80, couple or
stag. The price also includes fed
eral tax. A dorm will be opened
to accommodate the girls, hnd the
one to be used will be announced
in a later issue of the Batt.
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The first six months of 1944
have passed without a single com- «
mercial failure in Texas, the Uni
versity of Texas Bureau of Busi-
ness Research reports.
Last bankruptcy of a Texas bus- ^
iness firm occurred in July, 1943.
There were nine failures reported
for the first half of 1943, the bur- ”
eau pointed out.
The temperature of molten lava
ranges from 2200 to 3600 degrees ,
Farenheit.
It is estimated that there are
more than 10,000 mineral springs
in the United States.
The earth is about three million '
miles nearer the sun in the win
ter than it is in summer.
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